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New Zealand, the Cook Islands’ biggest funder, halts money to the Pacific nation over its China ties
New Zealand has halted millions of dollars in funding to the Cook Islands over the “breadth and content” of agreements the ...
New Zealand halts millions of funds to Cook Islands over its China ties
New Zealand has halted millions of dollars in funding to the Cook Islands over the “breadth and content” of agreements the ...
New Zealand has suspended millions in funding to the Cook Islands over its growing China ties
New Zealand has suspended millions of dollars in funding to the Cook Islands over the “breadth and content” of agreements the ...
Cook Islands aid row spotlights China’s Pacific outreach, New Zealand’s mounting unease
The funding cut leaves the Cook Islands facing a sudden financial shortfall, prompting warnings that Wellington's approach ...
Tensions rise as New Zealand freezes millions of dollars in aid to Cook Islands over China deals
New Zealand freezes millions in aid to Cook Islands over China ties - New Zealand has halted millions of dollars in funding ...
New Zealand halts funding to Cook Islands over former colony's deepening ties with China
New Zealand has halted funding to the Cook Islands over what it considers the small Pacific nation's deepening ties with ...
New Zealand halts Cook Islands funding over China deals
New Zealand has what is known as a "free association" relationship with the Cook Islands, and helps the latter with defence ...
Explainer: Why has New Zealand paused funding to the Cook Islands over China deal?
New Zealand has halted more than $18 million in development assistance to its realm country. But the island's prime minister ...
New Zealand withdraws millions in aid from Cook Islands
New Zealand has abruptly halted nearly $NZ20 million ($US11 million) in funding to the Cook Islands in retaliation for a ...
Cook Islands PM decries New Zealand’s ‘patronising’ aid pause
Cook Islands PM said the relationship between his country and New Zealand is defined by partnership, not paternalism. Read ...
New Zealand halts Cook Islands funding in stoush over China
New Zealand has paused nearly $20m of core sector support funding for the Cook Islands, after its government signed ...